Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1915 — Woman in Fit of Anger Sets Fire to Her Dress. [ARTICLE]

Woman in Fit of Anger Sets Fire to Her Dress.

Mrs. Robert Ward, of Norway, near Montieello, is dead as a result of having poured kerosene on the front of her dress and set fire to it. Her husband remained out late last Monday pight and she had retired. When he returned home they had some words and she tried to kill herseLf. He threw his overcoat about her and smothered the flames but she had inhaled • the fire and her mouth and throat were badly burned and she died Wednesday. Her body was badly burned from the knees to the.chin.